Settles v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sims

Reversing.

The grand jury of the Jackson Circuit Court returned an indictment against appellant, Arthur Settles, charging him with unlawfully transporting intoxicating malt beer in Jackson County, where the local option law was in force, for other than sacramental, medicinal, scientific or mechanical purposes. Upon a trial he was convicted and his punishment fixed at a fine of $100 and imprisonment in the county jail for thirty days. _ He moves this court for an appeal and asks that the judgment be reversed on two grounds: (a) The court erred in overruling his…